It's been nearly two years since I walked down the aisle with the love of my life, and I still haven't created a wedding photo album. I've even gone so far as to upload thousands of photos from that amazing day to Shutterfly, where they still live, just waiting for me to do something with them. All my mom wants for Mother's Day? A photo album from the wedding … this century.

This week, I tested a free iPhone app that Disney is set to launch today, called Story. The whole idea behind it is to finally do something with all the smartphone photos and videos you've captured that help show and tell the story of your life. But rather than making you sift through hundreds, if not thousands, of photos, then drag-and-drop each of them into a slot in an album outline, Story does it all for you. Fast.

When you open up the app on your iPhone screen, you see a My Moments heading and beneath that, a bunch of clean, upscale-looking photo books with your pictures already laid out. Story uses a time and location algorithm to figure out which photos and videos go where. You can take photos out or swap their placement, and personalize each photo book with captions, pages of text, themes, and layouts. Then, with one more tap, you can share the finished product with family and friends via e-mail or social media. The entire process, from a mishmash of snapshots to a beautiful digital storybook, takes about 30 seconds.

When I opened up the app, I had three photo albums waiting for me; one from my recent trip to Yosemite, another from my daughter's basketball game last weekend and another entire album filled with photos and videos from her first horse show of the season. Story did a really good job of putting them in the right places, based on when and where I was when I took them. It also seemed to guess which ones were the most important to me, because all of the best shots appeared in the largest photo slots. It's a bit uncanny that way.

I also created a new storybook from scratch, using all of the wedding photos that I have saved on my Photo Stream. That took the extra step of dragging and dropping photos, which took about two minutes, start to finish. From there, I could get as creative as I wanted, writing a nice narrative to explain what we were doing, what we were thinking, and what I hope we all remember when we're sitting around someday "remembering when." All I have to do come Sunday morning is push "send" on an e-mail and a photo album of my wedding day will be waiting for my mom when she wakes up on Mother's Day. Of course, I'll pretend it took me forever to create and say a very gracious, "You're welcome," when she tells me how much she loves it. It's a bummer that you can't actually print the books out yet. I'm sure my mom will ask about that. But Disney Interactive says that's coming later this year, along with the app's availability across iOS (right now, it's only on iPhone and iPod Touch), Android and other platforms.

Two other apps I've tested recently come pretty close to doing what Story does, but neither hits the mom target so spot-on. New app KeepShot has a leg up in that you can actually print physical photo albums from your cellphone shots for anywhere from $20 to $70, and they're delivered to your doorstep in less than two weeks. But you still have to drag and drop all of the photos into it, so it loses points for taking more time and work than Story. KeepShot is also only available right now on the iPad.

Qwiki is the only other app I've seen that aggregates your smartphone camera roll for you and lets you create mini music videos to save and share. But it tends to come across as a little too hipster cool and/or too high-tech for some moms I've talked with. Other favorite smartphone, photo-editing and sharing apps, such as Snapseed, Whip and Groovebook deliver one or two of the "what do I do with all these photos" solutions, but so far, Story still edges them out as being the most robust and mom-friendly. With Story, there aren't any additional bookmaking programs to worry about, no hours-to-days-long upload times, and you can do a simple zoom-in or squeeze-down, to get your photos just right.

When I asked Disney Interactive editor-in-chief Catherine Connors why creating an app like this is important to Disney's digital platform right now, she said it's a sign of the modern digital world we live in today. Moms are more mobile and more social than ever before. But if anything, we are more time-crunched than we've ever been. She says Story was created to help solve the problem of how we now share the most important stories of our lives, in our very own, modern — yet still meaningful — way. When I "amen sister'd" that, and pointed out that I haven't created a physical photo album of my own daughter since she was 3 (she's 12 now), Connors admitted she's never created photo books of her own kids, who are 7 and 4. With Story, I suspect that's going to change by Mother's Day, if it hasn't already.

Jennifer Jolly is an Emmy Award-winning consumer tech contributor and host of USA TODAY's digital video show TECH NOW. E-mail her at techcomments@usatoday.com. Follow her on Twitter: @JenniferJolly.